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Octafish

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28. Victoria Nuland is channeling Cheney.
Mon May 25, 2015, 12:43 PM
May 2015




Neocons and Liberals Together, Again

The neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) has signaled its intention to continue shaping the government's national security...

Tom Barry, last updated: February 02, 2005

The neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) has signaled its intention to continue shaping the government's national security strategy with a new public letter stating that the "U.S. military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it to assume." Rather than reining in the imperial scope of U.S. national security strategy as set forth by the first Bush administration, PNAC and the letter's signatories call for increasing the size of America's global fighting machine.

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Liberal Hawks Fly with the Neocons

The recent PNAC letter to Congress was not the first time that PNAC or its associated front groups, such as the Coalition for the Liberation of Iraq, have included hawkish Democrats.

Two PNAC letters in March 2003 played to those Democrats who believed that the invasion was justified at least as much by humanitarian concerns as it was by the purported presence of weapons of mass destruction. PNAC and the neocon camp had managed to translate their military agenda of preemptive and preventive strikes into national security policy. With the invasion underway, they sought to preempt those hardliners and military officials who opted for a quick exit strategy in Iraq. In their March 19th letter, PNAC stated that Washington should plan to stay in Iraq for the long haul: "Everyone-those who have joined the coalition, those who have stood aside, those who opposed military action, and, most of all, the Iraqi people and their neighbors-must understand that we are committed to the rebuilding of Iraq and will provide the necessary resources and will remain for as long as it takes."

Along with such neocon stalwarts as Robert Kagan, Bruce Jackson, Joshua Muravchik, James Woolsey, and Eliot Cohen, a half-dozen Democrats were among the 23 individuals who signed PNAC's first letter on post-war Iraq. Among the Democrats were Ivo Daalder of the Brookings Institution and a member of Clinton's National Security Council staff; Martin Indyk, Clinton's ambassador to Israel; Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute and Democratic Leadership Council; Dennis Ross, Clinton's top adviser on the Israel-Palestinian negotiations; and James Steinberg, Clinton's deputy national security adviser and head of foreign policy studies at Brookings. A second post-Iraq war letter by PNAC on March 28 called for broader international support for reconstruction, including the involvement of NATO, and brought together the same Democrats with the prominent addition of another Brookings' foreign policy scholar, Michael O'Hanlon.

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FTI: Victoria Nuland, our woman in Ukraine, is married to PNAC co-founder Robert Kagan, whose brother is Frederick Kagan. Frederick Kagan's spouse is Kimberly Kagan. Brilliant people, big ideas, and a lot of PNAC, which spells out the neocon/neolib approach to international relations means more wars without end for profits without cease, among other things detrimental to peace, justice, and democracy.

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It's a win win situation for them. Autumn May 2015 #1
Yep, they'll get all their awful policies and Democrats will take the blame. Scuba May 2015 #20
+1 daleanime May 2015 #27
They have a hell of a way of showing it. NuclearDem May 2015 #2
She pays attention to security briefings, she will make good decisions. Thinkingabout May 2015 #3
I am actually laughing out loud DURHAM D May 2015 #7
Once again, an article from one year ago showing that Kagan's the same ol neocon AZ Progressive May 2015 #11
Yes so Hillary's just suddenly changed her mind, and Robert Kagan, within the past year? Please.... AZ Progressive May 2015 #14
Just like she actually read the CIA Iraq WMD briefing before she stumped for invasion in the Senate? leveymg May 2015 #30
an opinion column from a year ago. not facts, just opinion OKNancy May 2015 #4
That doesn't mean that he's not a neo-con anymore AZ Progressive May 2015 #6
His opinion piece was for the purpose of selling his stupid book. DURHAM D May 2015 #8
Deflection attempt AZ Progressive May 2015 #12
Wasn't hard. nt DURHAM D May 2015 #13
Nor effective. (nt) Jackpine Radical May 2015 #26
A manifesto from Robert Kagan about one year ago AZ Progressive May 2015 #10
K&R Katashi_itto May 2015 #5
I smell book sales here. leftofcool May 2015 #9
The anti-hillary crowd is willing to sink to any level these days. MohRokTah May 2015 #15
Isn't it just easier to pretend that facts don't exist? AZ Progressive May 2015 #16
personally quickesst May 2015 #17
I just put 'em on ignore on sight any more. MohRokTah May 2015 #18
People who agree that Hillary Clinton is a Neocon AZ Progressive May 2015 #19
Victoria Nuland is channeling Cheney. Octafish May 2015 #28
k&R woo me with science May 2015 #21
End scene. GoneOffShore May 2015 #22
kick woo me with science May 2015 #23
Neocons/neoliberals. 99Forever May 2015 #24
If you take Hillary at her word, you are antiHillary. n/t betterdemsonly May 2015 #25
When was she ever disaligned with the Neocons? leveymg May 2015 #29
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